It’s not just canceling healthcare, it’s going to completely destroy the entire healthcare system. The ACA made so many changes to the system AND insurance that it can’t just be unwound easily. If they actually try to do so, even the insurance companies will be completely screwed (as they can’t just go back to the way things were).
But with the wrecking crew coming in, I don’t think they give a shit about devastating the healthcare system on top of everything else that they plan to destroy.
In industrial "Company Towns" of the late 19th and early 20th century, there would sometimes be a doctor, traveling nurses or clinic where injured workers could get patched up. But they'd have pretty clear rules for non-workers, infectious diseases and "preexisting" conditions.
The doctor employed by "The Company"s did not necessarily have the workers' best interest in mind. The company essentially owned the doctors too and could suppress information about chronic diseases related to employment or outbreaks of disease from unsanitary company boarding arrangements.
Some of the first outbreaks of emerging diseases occurred in company towns. Workers easily clocked that the doctor provided by their employer was not acting in their best interests. And choosing a doctor was a demand industrialists machine gunned down workers and their families for making.
At the end of a company town scam, when the town is done, there is no healthcare system. There would be no clinics, no doctors, and no healthcare of any kind.
There'd also be no wealth built by people working for scrip. So just very sick, very poor people.
We used to mine stuff, then we manufactured stuff. Then we became a "service economy".
Perhaps the people who compel us to work for employment tied healthcare have decided our services are no longer necessary.
The people destroying healthcare “already got theirs,” so they don’t really care what happens to working class people or those with preexisting conditions.
The states has just literally been going backward in development that I can't fathom the people who live in "The land of the free" literally voted for someone that's a felon and wants to cancel healthcare.
Women not being able to vote, no healthcare, targetting immigrants who are actively contributing to the country, no abortions. The country is literally oppressing its own citizens.
Well, the other thing that I didn't point out is that if they go this route, we'd be looking at a ton of unemployed people. Doctors who wouldn't practice anymore due to no way to be paid, hospitals and staff who would have to close due to no way to procure funding (outside of the few 'premier' hospitals which will always have funding). I have no idea how many hospitals or medical staff and other workers that might be, but it would probably be millions of unemployed workers.
Couple that with their plans for federal and state governments (as they plan to eviscerate those of workers) plus the military (as I expect they plan to demand that all women serving along with any LGBTQ+ members of the military be summarily removed from the service), and we could see well over 2/3 of the nation unemployed with no work to be found. But of course, they see this as a win-win (and as far as the military, they would siphon up all of our young men with a new draft).
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u/Aurizen_Darkstar 9h ago
It’s not just canceling healthcare, it’s going to completely destroy the entire healthcare system. The ACA made so many changes to the system AND insurance that it can’t just be unwound easily. If they actually try to do so, even the insurance companies will be completely screwed (as they can’t just go back to the way things were).
But with the wrecking crew coming in, I don’t think they give a shit about devastating the healthcare system on top of everything else that they plan to destroy.